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NURSE JACKIE

SEASON 1 EPISODE 11

“PILL-O-MATIX”

Edie Falco as Nurse Jackie Peyton

With one episode left, it’s hard to believe season 1 of Nurse Jackie is almost over!!

What a great season it has been to this point, and it shows no signs of slowing down. For those of you who have yet to see this episode, be warned:

IT CONTAINS SPOILERS!!

In this episode, Pill-O-Matix, which is the name of the machine that will be replacing Eddie in the pharmacy, we learn that it’s not the machine they were expecting, but a cheaper version.

During mother and daughter tap class, Jackie has a run-in with her old school mate and her daughter, prompting her to take herself and Grace out of the class altogether. So whatever progress Grace was making, this incident just set her back, oh, probably to episode 1!

Kevin wants to surprise Jackie with a replacement wedding ring, but the surprise is almost ruined by Fiona, who almost spilled the beans on Kevin’s plans.

Dr. Cooper, after being kissed by Jackie in the previous episode, decides to call it quits with his current girlfriend, Melissa. He tells her he kissed another woman and he is having feelings that he never felt before. Makes one wonder if  ”Coop” has really ever had much luck with women in the first place. He develops a crush on Jackie, plying her with flowers and coffee and gum, because he asked Zoey what things Jackie liked. Jackie does not like this unwanted attention.

During a lunch-time shopping spree with Jackie and O’hara, we learn that O’Hara’s mother is in a coma, for which she blames her step-father.

Elsewhere, a popular television movie critic (guest star Victor Garber) is admitted to the ER with a broken elbow incurred by walking and using his laptop at the same time.  Mrs. Akalitus introduces herself to the movie critic, and they seem to have a lot in common career-wise, and the fact that he is divorced even seems to light up her day. I’m thinking we won’t be seeing the last of this blossoming storyline. When interviewed by Zoey, he tells her he hates cats, which doesn’t sit well with her. Then the very next minute administers the wrong dosage of a pain killer which puts him into a coma.  Jackie has her removed from the floor and limited to desk duty.

For a going away gift from Eddie, he shows Jackie how to override the pill machine so she can still get her fix now that he will no longer be around. He still wants to keep seeing Jackie, and now they wouldn’t have to sneak around at work. He wants them to move their relationship to the next level by meeting her kid, too! He sets her up with some Oxycontin for the meantime, and they have one last fling (for now) right on the machine itself. Now how’s that for irony??

After work, Zoey, Mo-mo and Thor go out for pizza and the boys try to reassure Zoey that what happend was only a mistake and they too have made their fare share as well. And Zoey finally figures out that nurse Thor is an openly gay man!!

In the final scene, we see Jackie plucking two flowers from an arrangement she threw in the trash earlier from Dr. Cooper, heads to Kevin’s bar and presents them to Fiona and Grace, who rejects mom’s offer. I have noticed that every time Jackie and Eddie get it on, her guilt gets the best of her and she presents her girls with little tokens of her love. As the camera pulls away from the happy family gathering, we see that Eddie had followed Jackie home, and we see him looking through the window of the bar to find out that not only does Jackie have a kid, but another kid and Husband to boot!!

I cannot wait until the season finale next week to see what goes down, and I’m sure you’re all with me on that one!

So, as always, your comments are always welcome and appreciated.

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Until Next Time…

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Michael Queenstown

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NURSE JACKIE

SEASON 1 EPISODE 10

“RING FINGER”

When we last saw Jackie Peyton, she was suggesting to her daughter Grace that they do more things together as mother and daughter. Episode 10 of this fantastic series opens with the pair taking mother/daughter dance class together, where they end up running into an old high school classmate and her daughter. The daughter whispers in Grace’s ear that her mom was Grace’s dad’s girlfriend before her mom. Jackie and Grace get a big laugh over that one.

Back at work, Dr. O’Hara tries to smooth things over with Jackie, and notices that Jackie still has her wedding ring on. Whoops! Jackie seems to be having a problem getting her ring finger off. Meanwhile a cardiac arrest patient is admitted to the ER, and try as they may, Dr. Cooper and the nurses are unable to revive the young man. Jackie decides to tie up any loose ends and finds the man’s cell phone ringing, takes it out of his pocket and finds out that according to his text messages, he was on his way to someone’s house, most likely on a date. Since the man never showed up on time, the person on the other end of the conversation becomes mad. Jackie uses the phone to call whomever this person was and leaves a message to come to the hospital right away.  In the man’s possession was a rented movie, and some letters and bills to be mailed, minus the postage.

Dr. Cooper finds out Jackie went behind his back and signed off on the brain-dead patient from last week and goes off on her. She reminds him that he is never around and refuses to answer his pages when called, so she saw no other choice. He threatens to blow the whistle on her. When she confronts him later about his threats, he gets nervous again and grabs her breast. Rather than admonish him, she calms him down, shows him there are no hard feelings and then gives him a kiss.

At this point no one has replied to the message Jackie left concerning the cardiac arrest man.

The Pharmacy is getting prepared to receive the pill dispensing machine so Jackie finds Eddie in the back room, where they start to get busy, only to have Zoey accidentally walk in on them. Later Jackie Zoey agree that what she saw stayed between them.

Jackie decides she has no choice but to have Dr. O’Hara cut her wedding ring off her finger, and she’ll think of something to tell Kevin. Jackie decides to take a hammer and smash her ring finger, making it look like an accident, forcing her ring to be cut off.

On her way home, Jackie takes one last look in the cardiac arrest man’s bag of goodies, takes out the man’s mail, puts her own postage on it and drops it in the mailbox on her way. As she is walking to the subway, the man’s phone finally rings, she answers it and we finally have some closure.

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NURSE JACKIE: 1.7

“STEAK KNIFE”

Jackie tells Dr. O’Hara that they decided to send their daughter Grace to the private school “Immaculate Virgin”. Dr. O’Hara offers to pay for the school, but Jackie refuses. Before they enter the hospital, Jackie notices that Dr. O’Hara is wearing two different shoes and asks if everything is alright, O’Hara shrugs it off as if it was not a big deal.

A new patient named Zak is brought to the ER with multiple stab wounds to the chest. The patient’s date, a young woman named Lori, reveals that they were on their first date when her ex-husband showed up despite a restraining order and stabbed her date.

Meanwhile, Mrs. Akalitus discovers a baby in a baby car seat. When she asks for its parents, no one answers.

Dr. Cooper joins Dr. O’Hara and Jackie who take care of the stab wound patient. Jackie wants to send him away, but Dr. O’Hara tells a surprised Jackie that she prefers him to stay. Soon later, she tells Dr. Cooper to take over for her and leaves the room.

Jackie visits Eddie who texted her several times. He has a present for her, a bracelet, because it’s their anniversary. Jackie gets the date wrong (apparently she mixed up her and Eddie’s 1 year anniversary of having sex together, with her and Keith’s wedding anniversary), and when she doesn’t want to wear the bracelet, Eddie gets angry, apologizing that it’s not made of  Vicodin, and takes it back from her. This pisses Jackie off and she tells him to keep his bracelet AND his pills. 

Elsewhere, a child molester has been admitted, and Zoey needs Jackie’s help because she can’t take out the man’s katheder. When Jackie finds out the man is a child molester, she removes the katheder with a quick yank, causing the patient to scream in agony. Mo-mo who witnessed Jackie’s behavior orders her to go for a walk. She reveals she is upset because she had a fight with her boyfriend after she forgot their anniversary. Mo-mo, stunned to find out Jackie has a boyfriend, asks why she never told him. “Because you do all the talking, hun.”

When Dr. Cooper is in Eddie’s dispensary for lunch, he swoons over the bracelet Eddie got for Jackie, and tells him to keep it. Later, Jackie talks to Lori, the friend of the steak knife victim Zak. She reveals that Zak is the first nice guy she met and after what happened she believes he won’t want to go out with her anymore. While this is all happening around her, Mrs. Akalitus walks through the hospital, still looking for the baby’s parents, and
Jackie notices that Dr. Cooper is wearing the bracelet Eddie wanted to give to her.

Jackie seeks Dr. O’Hara in her office to pour her heart out to her. Jackie tells her about the bracelet and the anniversary she forgot. Meanwhile, Dr. O’Hara takes a Xanax and Jackie wants to know what’s going on, but Dr. O’Hara still refuses to tell her. However, she offers Jackie a Xanax pill. While Dr. O’Hara looks away, Jackie takes more han one pill out of the box and hides them in her pocket. After Jackie has swallowed the pill, O’Hara advises her to clean up her mess.  Jackie goes to see Eddie and apologizes. She asks for the bracelet, but tells him that she doesn’t want to wear it at work.  Eddie agrees and takes the bracelet away from Dr. Cooper, who for my money was strangely too enamored with it in the first place!

Mrs. Akalitus still hasn’t found the baby’s parents, but is trying to keep it entertained by shaking a paperclip holder as a rattle, when Jackie approaches her and takes a paper clip out of the baby’s mouth. It’s at this time Mrs. Akalitus announces that she is informing social services about the baby.

Jackie checks on the steak knife victim Zak. She asks him to let Lori see him, but he refuses because he thinks it’s too dangerous. Jackie decides to increase his morphine dose. While he’s floating on his morphine cloud, she talks at Zak and tells him to see Lori and gives him Eddie’s bracelet to give it to Lori. Jackie sends Lori to his room, when O’Hara appears and tells her that her day wasn’t easy and she will be alone after work while Jackie will be going home to her family and Jackie invites her over.

At home, over a bottle of scotch, O’Hara talks about her trouble with her step father that has bothered her all day. The next morning, Fiona is making coffee for her, when O’Hara notices an unpaid bill from the water and power companies on Jackie’s kitchen table and puts it in her purse.  Soon after, Jackie and Kevin enter the kitchen, as well as Grace in her uniform of her new school.  While O’Hara helps Grace with her hair, Kevin spies the bill in her purse and takes out. Without saying anything, Jackie asks Kevin not to make a scene, but it’s pretty obvious to me that he was pissed.

So what’s up with Dr. O’Hara? How long can Jackie keep up her affair with Eddie before Kevin finds out? How will Grace cope in Catholic school? Will Mrs. Akalitus ever find the parents of the baby left at the hospital?

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And Until Next Time, thanks for reading and your comments are encouraged and more than welcome!

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